Voices at your Library

Wednesday, the day after Voices on the Coast Youth Literature festival is over, enables us to tour a couple of willing authors around our local Sunshine Coast Libraries, to meet and greet those kids (and some adults) who may have missed the fun. This year we had the pleasure of Sally Rippin and Christopher Cheng, visiting a range of libraries. I had the honour of 'driving Miss Sally" from Coolum to Cooroy to Noosa, meeting a variety of listeners on the way. Sally impressed her fans with her range of talents - from illustrating to writing novels and early readers. The most interesting part of her talk, for me, was how she made beautiful picture books as gifts for children in her life. What a great idea. Even if you did no other form of writing, or ever became a "famous author", using your talents to give pleasure to a special person is a great thing to do. Thanks Sally!